Mr. Boffo often uses the term “unclear on the concept” in portraying a character who genuinely just doesn’t get it. Joe Martin should have used it today, because the term “mailman” disappeared a couple of decades ago, and the majority of actors under 40 use the term “actor” regardless of sex, just as nobody says […]
Most schools are out by now, though Big Nate (AMS) had me searching my memory for how the year’s end went in middle school. In high school, the last week or so was finals and you only showed up if you had one, most of which were NYS Regents exams and were scheduled by Albany. […]
I’m going to start with something substantive before moving on to trivia today. I don’t entirely disagree with Mike Lester (AMS), but, then again, I don’t entirely agree with him, either. The more argumentative point is that, from my side of things, we are paying for the Pigs in Space Race, based on the way […]
Peter Brookes (Times UK) invokes James Gillray’s classic 1805 cartoon to show the controversy between the UK and France over vaccine allotment. Oddly enough, DD Degg ran the original yesterday, in a posting that is not long but is quite deep and that you really should go check out. However, here it is again, […]
John Deering gets the Fortuitous Timing of the Month Award for dropping this Strange Brew from a distance of several weeks and having it land just as Rush Limbaugh was holding up the Donner Party as a model for how we all have to deal with Covid-19. To which I would add that, when you’re […]
(Tom Toles) (Clay Jones) We’ll start out with our Juxtaposition of the Day, taking on Zuckerberg’s Theory, which is that you have to take the money because you can’t figure out whether the source is legitimate or not. Which is a substantial part of the freedom that sites like Facebook enjoy: The theory is that […]
Matthew Sparkes at The Telegraph: Google has been awarded a patent for what it humourlessly calls “a system for electronically creating comic strip communications” which can be integrated into social networking websites and apps. The search giant noticed that many sites were offering an automated way to create short comic strips, allowing users to enter […]
Today’s Google Doodle is a tribute to Maurice Sendak. One of the better ones if you ask me.
While we await for Ruport Murdoch’s The Daily to launch (rumored/reported for January 17), Google is making noise that it isn’t going to let Apple own the digital subscription plans for newspapers and magazines apps. News organizations such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal currently have free iPad apps but are free for […]